Discover moreOnline Magazine SubscriptionsAfrican Cultural ExperiencesReal-time Event UpdatesBloomberg The Iran war is raising borrowing costs for African countries that are only just recovering from the post-pandemic shock that sent debt burdens soaring. Research published Tuesday by ONE Data showed borrowing costs from the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development jumped to 5.2% in…
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – After a long day of ferrying passengers to and fro recently, e-hailing driver Nguyen was dejected to find he had spent half of his earnings on fuel. “I drove for around seven or eight hours, making around 240,000 Vietnamese dong [$9.11] and then I paid 120,000 Vietnamese dong [$4.56]…
A new report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirms that thousands of people have died, millions more have been impacted, and billions in losses have been incurred due to extreme weather fueled by climate change. Record-high greenhouse gas levels have pushed the Earth’s climate into an unprecedented state of flux. While these atmospheric…
Increasing chip costs are starting to affect SIM cards. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson, with images from Freepik) JSE-listed MTN says it hasn’t seen the effects of a shortage of computing components due to the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry’s demand for chipsets – yet. AI companies’ ramp-up of data centres to cater…
Shortages of chipsets and RAM caused by the AI data centre boom are beginning to affect the telecommunications sector, according to MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita. Responding to a question from TechCentral at MTN Group’s presentation of its annual results to 31 December 2025 on Monday, Mupita said MTN has seen the cost of computing…
The US agency says a system being worked out to mediate the disbursement of $166bn in tariff costs to more than 330,000 importers. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 6 Mar 20266 Mar 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo The United States Customs and…
Eskom CTIO Len de Villiers State-owned power producer Eskom is looking to cut the number of AI pilots across the organisation in a bid to avoid wasteful expenditure, according to its CTIO, Len de Villiers. Speaking at the industrial digital and intelligent transformation forum hosted by Huawei at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on…
The global smartphone market is currently grappling with a severe shortage of dynamic RAM (DRAM), as manufacturers pivot production toward high-margin memory for AI data centres. While this “memory crunch” has forced significant price hikes globally, Samsung’s Galaxy S26 launch in South Africa on Wednesday revealed a market relatively shielded from the worst of these…
Does the idea of a website still feel like an unnecessary expense? Maybe you already trade from a physical store, sell at markets or use social media to reach customers, and business is going great. Why change what works, right? But in 2026, being online isn’t about replacing what already works. It’s about supporting it….
While online retail in South Africa surged past R130-billion in 2025, now accounting for nearly 10% of total retail spend, the growth of digital grocery delivery has far outpaced the transparency of those platforms. According to research from World Wide Worx, shoppers are increasingly moving online, yet a new service called We Need Milk argues…
